Approved December 13, 2000, Meeting Minutes
The Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board (ORSSAB) held its regularly scheduled monthly
meeting on Wednesday, December 13, 2000, at the Comfort Inn in Oak Ridge, beginning at
6:00 p.m. A video tape recording of the meeting was made and may be viewed by calling
the SSAB support office at 865-241-3665.

Presentation
Mr. Kopotic gave a presentation on the Proposed Plan for East Tennessee Technology Park
Zone 1 and distributed copies of his overheads (Attachment 1). Ms. Jones (who is on the
writing team for the plan) explained that the original issue date for public review of the
document was late December; however, because the cost of Zone 1 activities will be over
$75M, the plan must be presented to the EPA Remedy Review Board for consideration. That
process will delay issuance of the plan for perhaps three months.

After the presentation, the following questions were asked by SSAB members and the
public.

Questioner

Question

Response (abridged)

Avalon Mansfield

How did you set the Zone 1
boundaries?

Zone 1 includes areas outside the
ETTP fences, which are areas the public can access. We designated Zone 1 separately from
areas inside the fences because of the remediation activities taking place within.

Luther Gibson

Do you still have a lot of scrap
metal at the powerhouse area?

Yes. If the Secretarys
moratorium on recycling is lifted, the metal can be recycled, otherwise it will be
disposed.

Kerry Trammell

Are there any estimates of buried
materials in Zone 1 that may as yet be uncharted?

The plan addressed areas of known
contamination, and if we encounter other areas, theyll be addressed in a manner
appropriate to the magnitude. We may, for instance, simply notify EPA that a contiguous
area of contamination exists; or if the material is more significant, we may issue an
Explanation of Significant Difference or perhaps even amend the Record of Decision (ROD).

Scott Vowell

Are the activities of ETTP lessees
overseen by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and other entities that
govern DOE activities at ETTP?

Many questions of this sort are
being raised by TDEC and EPA. ETTP is a Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act site, so DOE must ultimately address these sort of
questions.

Steve Kopp

When was the capital cost estimate
of $80M done?

While we drafted the plan; the
numbers will be revised before the ROD is issued.

Jeff Cange

Where will all the waste be
disposed?

At the EM Waste Management
Facility (EMWMF).

So it all meets the EMWMF waste
acceptance criteria?

The waste acceptance criteria have
not been set yet, so that issue is still being worked.

Susan Gawarecki, Local Oversight
Committee (LOC) Executive Director

Historic preservation at K-25 is
important to the community, and I hope that a portion of it be preserved because of the
importance of the Manhattan Project. I hope the SSAB will take an interest and that DOE
will plan for some preservation.

Its an issue were
struggling with. A meeting on that topic will be held in January or February.

Norman Mulvenon, Chairman of the
Citizens Advisory Panel of the (LOC)

Is there any way you could have
gotten costs down to below the $75M threshold that triggered Remedy Review Board
involvement?

We considered that, and it was the
consensus that going before the review board might still be desirable.

Deputy Designated Federal Official and Ex-Officio Comments
Ms. Halsey welcomed new ORSSAB member Kevin Shaw and announced that two other new members,
John Million and John Kennerly, had been seated on the Board. They will be attending the
January Board meeting. Ms. Halsey made two other announcements:

 The Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 budget allocation has been set but cannot be released
to the public at this time. DOE-ORO will schedule a public meeting to update stakeholders
on the allocation as well as the status of planning on the FY 2002 and 2003 budgets.

 DOE will make a presentation at the January Board meeting on the Upper East Fork
Poplar Creek (UEFPC) Watershed. The Proposed Plan for UEFPC will be sent to TDEC and EPA
next week; it should be available to the public around December 20. The 45-day public
review period will begin January 8 and end February 21. A representative from DOEs
UEFPC team will attend the ORSSAB Environmental Restoration Committee meeting on January
18 to discuss the plan in depth.

Mr. Owsley responded to a question raised by Mr. Lewis at the November 8, 2000, Board
meeting regarding offsite sampling around the Oak Ridge Reservation. When TDEC took over
the well monitoring program from DOE, TDEC was not given the names and addressed of
property owners participating in the program; the owners were instructed to contact TDEC
directly if they wished to have monitoring continued. Some confusion about those
instructions has been discovered, and TDEC is now working to contact all property owners
in the original program to see if they want to continue their involvement.

Mr. Owsley announced that he had received verbal confirmation of his appointment as
Director of the TDEC DOE Oversight Division.

Public Comment
None.

Announcements and Other Board Business
The next Board meeting will be Wednesday, January 10, at the Garden Plaza Hotel. The
presentation will focus on the Proposed Plan for UEFPC.

Walter Perry, DOE-ORO Community Relations Manager, announced that an emergency
situation had developed at ETTP this evening. Fluorine and hydrogen fluoride were
discovered emanating from Building K-1302a shutdown facility where fluorine had been
once been stored. Four persons were taken to medical services facilities for treatment of
nausea and headache. The area has been cordoned off, and teams are on site evaluating the
situation. Mr. Perry distributed a news release on the subject (Attachment 4).

Ms. Sigal distributed a table of DOE long-term stewardship activities for December and
January (Attachment 5).

Mr. Vowell reported that members of the Stewardship Committees Education
Subcommittee (Mr. Vowell, Ms. Mansfield, Ms. Staley, and Al Brooks, along with staff
member Dennis Hill and Ralph Skinner of DOE-ORO) met on December 16 at Oak Ridge High
School with approximately 20 high school and middle school educators. The purpose of the
meeting was to discuss incorporating stewardship issues in school curricula. The educators
were receptive to the concept, and the committee will follow up on their visit in the near
future.

Mr. Osborne gave a report on recent public outreach activities, which include the
following:

 November 29: Outreach visit to the ETTP cafeteria by Charles Washington and
Luther Gibson

 December 4: Presentation to environmental sciences students at Pellissippi State
Community College by Lorene Sigal

 December 6: Outreach visit to the Federal Building by Charles Washington, Luther
Gibson, and Steve Kopp

The meeting adjourned at 8:30 p.m.

Attachments to these minutes are available upon request from the SSAB support office.

M12/13/00.2
Ms. Staley moved to approve the amended agenda. Mr. Mosby seconded the motion and the
motion was unanimously approved.

M12/13/00.3
Mr. Mosby moved to approve the amended minutes of the November 8, 2000, Board meeting.
Mr. Alexander seconded the motion, and the motion was unanimously approved
(Mr. Cange and Ms. Rush were absent for the vote).

M12/13/00.4
Ms. Sigal moved to approve comments on the draft Long-Term Stewardship Study of October
2000. No second was required for the motion, and the motion was unanimously
approved (Mr. Cange and Ms. Rush were absent for the vote).

M12/13/00.5
Ms. Sigal moved to endorse the draft EMSSAB Recommendations on Long-Term Stewardship. No
second was required for the motion, and the motion was unanimously approved
(Mr. Cange, Ms. Fletcher, and Ms. Rush were absent for the vote).

Respectfully submitted,
Coralie A. Staley, Secretary

CAS/plo

Attachments (5)

Action Items

Staff will amend the minutes of the November 8, 2000, Board meeting to note Mr.
Owsleys action item as complete. Completed 12/14/00